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Objective: To investigate high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels in children with COVID-19. Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration of the Study: Goztepe Professor Suleyman Yalcin City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkiye, between 2020 and 2022. Methodology: The hospital data were examined to And children ( Results: During the study period, 1,056 children were diagnosed with COVID-19. Lipid levels were measured in 193 patients during outpatient clinic visits from the same hospital records. One hundred and twenty-seven (65.5%) patients displayed low HDL-C levels. One hundred and nine (86.5%) of the patients with low HDL-C and 33 (50.0%) of the patients with normal HDL-C were hospitalised (p=0.012). Patients with lower HDL-C exhibited higher triglyceride (median 124 vs. 81 mg/dl, p Conclusion: Low HDL-C levels were common in children with COVID-19. Children with COVID-19 and low HDL-C were more frequently hospitalised and had higher inflammatory biomarkers of COVID-19 than children with COVID-19 and normal HDL-C levels. Key Words: HDL-C, HDL-C levels in children, COVID-19, Children with COVID-19.
INTRODUCTION The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a result of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Global reports from more than 80 countries reported that COVID-19 did [...]